Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls laid out a five-point plan for economic growth that included a reintroduction of the tax on bankers' bonuses, cuts to VAT, investment in infrastructure and cuts to national insurance.

Jonathan Freedland on the impassioned plea for the UN to give its blessing to the creation of a Palestinian stateIt was the United Nations that determined the fate of the Palestinian people more than six decades ago and on Friday it was the UN that he...